| Re: "This Late Place" by STEPHEN WATSON [boodskap #33172] |
Sun, 06 August 2000 00:00  |
Amanda Marais
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Dis mooi. Ek is bly dat ek in die Kaap grootgeword het,
nêrens anders in die wêreld kom naby die Kaap nie.
Pat
skryf in boodskap news:398CD56A.C91AA321@home.com...
> THIS LATE PLACE
> Stephen Watson
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> In the darkness of the winter Cape, cold rain fills
> the bulging dams; sea pours, dull-foamed, storm-turbid
> across the offshore boulders. In the wind that blows
> north-north-west, bare-chested, air as if torn off in chunks,
> clouds lumber in their columns, slow, leaded by a cumulus,
> the earth tilts back its face, clear-soaked, unblinking,
> to swallow throatlessly.
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> Now as rain crowds on the roof
> late in the afternoon, you pause, cross to the window
> to watch a sky flood south, contused, to hear the wind
> quicken in the dark, blooded by the flocks of leaves
> that rush skywards, the wet birds flushed from the marsh
>
> In the darkness of the Cape, this late place of streams
> now yellowing, thick in spate, its trees a coal-dull black,
> cold rain still gathers on a window where you're drawn
> to watch it storm, to pause, face almost to the pane,
> as if you were still a child, and it could still be true,
> and you were not confused, remembering you once lived,
> that child, face to face before a sky whose space
> was soaked right through with night, and silenced
> before the size of weather, the presence of the earth.
>
> Stephen Watson (1997)
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| Re: "This Late Place" by STEPHEN WATSON [boodskap #33213 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #33172] |
Mon, 07 August 2000 00:00  |
T de Wet
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Is wragtag baie mooi. En dit nogal in Ingels! Die man wat dit geskrywe het
moes seker baie slim gewees het om so van die Kaap te kan skrywe, en dan
nogal in Ingels!
Alle grappies op 'n stokkie!
Is so mooi dat, as ek my oë toemaak, dan sien ek die brander by Blouberg
strand, en ruik ek (ten spyte van 'n verkoue) daai klam seelug wat so in jou
keel af gedruk word daar by Blouberg se strand.
Thys oppie Bos
Pat wrote in message ...
> Dis mooi. Ek is bly dat ek in die Kaap grootgeword het,
> nêrens anders in die wêreld kom naby die Kaap nie.
>
> Pat
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skryf in boodskap news:398CD56A.C91AA321@home.com...
>> THIS LATE PLACE
>> Stephen Watson
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>> In the darkness of the winter Cape, cold rain fills
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